{"id":1540,"date":"2011-11-14T17:14:31","date_gmt":"2011-11-14T22:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/?p=1540"},"modified":"2011-11-14T17:14:31","modified_gmt":"2011-11-14T22:14:31","slug":"american-aquarium-launches-kickstarter-campaign-for-upcoming-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/2011\/11\/14\/american-aquarium-launches-kickstarter-campaign-for-upcoming-album\/","title":{"rendered":"American Aquarium launches Kickstarter campaign for upcoming album"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"e26b170012445c56d240655bdd03f7bf\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: left; margin: 10px 10px 10px 0;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-5595881567027133\";\r\n\/* Medium Rectangle *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"8584504377\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve ruined countless relationships, worked shitty part-time jobs, and sold almost everything we have of value just to stay on the road,&#8221; B.J. Barham says at one point in the video embedded here that accompanies American Aquarium&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/americanaquarium\/american-aquarium-the-making-of-burnflickerdie\" target=\"_blank\">Kickstarter campaign <\/a>to fund their upcoming album <em>Burn.Flicker.Die.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As I&#8217;ve noted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/2011\/01\/08\/nights-of-love-and-loss-with-american-aquarium\/\" target=\"_blank\">before<\/a>, I&#8217;m a huge fan of American Aquarium. B.J. has tapped into something deep and serious in our culture &#8212; his lyrics seem to stream some of the discontent of young people overwhelmed by a struggling economy. But the band&#8217;s music is often upbeat, buoyant, hopeful.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1541\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/2011\/11\/14\/american-aquarium-launches-kickstarter-campaign-for-upcoming-album\/30768_388017539102_617509102_4089369_7827637_n-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/30768_388017539102_617509102_4089369_7827637_n.jpg?fit=300%2C300\" data-orig-size=\"300,300\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"30768_388017539102_617509102_4089369_7827637_n\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/30768_388017539102_617509102_4089369_7827637_n.jpg?fit=300%2C300\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/30768_388017539102_617509102_4089369_7827637_n.jpg?fit=300%2C300\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/30768_388017539102_617509102_4089369_7827637_n.jpg?resize=300%2C300\" alt=\"\" title=\"30768_388017539102_617509102_4089369_7827637_n\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1541\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/30768_388017539102_617509102_4089369_7827637_n.jpg?w=300 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/30768_388017539102_617509102_4089369_7827637_n.jpg?resize=150%2C150 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/>So I&#8217;m certainly going to kick in a few bucks to get the new record made. The plan is for the album to be recorded with Jason Isbell in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. The $20,000 goal seems pretty ambitious, but almost 1\/4th of the money has been raised in the campaign&#8217;s first few days.<\/p>\n<p>And, as with similar campaigns, donations as small as $10 &#8212; essentially a pre-purchase of the album &#8212; are welcome.<\/p>\n<p>Again, go <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/americanaquarium\/american-aquarium-the-making-of-burnflickerdie\" target=\"_blank\">here <\/a>to support the campaign. Here&#8217;s the video for the campaign: <\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"410px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/americanaquarium\/american-aquarium-the-making-of-burnflickerdie\/widget\/video.html\" width=\"480px\"><\/iframe><\/center><br \/>\n<div class=\"e26b170012445c56d240655bdd03f7bf\" data-index=\"4\" style=\"float: none; margin:4px 0 4px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-5595881567027133\";\r\n\/* Another large rectangle *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"0042810896\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 336;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 280;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve ruined countless relationships, worked shitty part-time jobs, and sold almost everything we have of value just to stay on the road,&#8221; B.J. Barham says at one point in the video embedded here that accompanies American Aquarium&#8217;s Kickstarter campaign to&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/2011\/11\/14\/american-aquarium-launches-kickstarter-campaign-for-upcoming-album\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1541,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6],"tags":[22],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/30768_388017539102_617509102_4089369_7827637_n.jpg?fit=300%2C300","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1gN9R-oQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}